FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Aug. 4, 2003 --
Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of security,
management and control solutions for instant messaging and other
forms of real-time communications in the enterprise, FaceTime
Communications today announced an alliance with BEA Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: BEAS) in which FaceTime will develop portlets that
integrate the recently announced IM Presence Manager to BEA
WebLogic Portalä 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1. The new
alliance between FaceTime and BEA supports the recent availability
of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, a unified architecture that provides
superior business integration through the convergence of
application development and integration. FaceTime provides its
customers with a comprehensive approach to the centralized
security, management and control of real-time communications in the
enterprise. FaceTime's portlet-level integration with BEA WebLogic
Platform 8.1 can enable customers to leverage intranets and
extranets for real-time presence awareness across multiple instant
messaging networks, utilizing instant messaging within the context
of common application environments. Embedding real-time presence
awareness into business process workflows can provide better
customer experience management, greater workforce productivity and
partner collaboration, and lowered operational costs. "With this
alliance, FaceTime demonstrates its continued commitment to
fulfilling the demands of customers looking to quickly benefit from
the competitive advantages of the 'real-time enterprise' by
combining its leadership and technological innovation with that of
other industry pioneers, such as BEA," said FaceTime Vice President
of Products and Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Christensen. "BEA
WebLogic provides customers a unified, simplified and extensible
platform that's designed to be easier to use than alternatives.
With this foundation, BEA and FaceTime can enable customers to work
faster and better, collaborating with customers, partners and
employees in shared environments regardless of network or
geographical location for maximum return on investments." With the
FaceTime-enabled presence aggregation capabilities integrated with
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, users can
detect availability on an individual or group basis and engage in
real-time communication via instant messaging over multiple
enterprise and public IM networks, all within the shared
application or process at hand. "The speed of business today
requires employees to collaborate within processes and workflows
instead of after the fact," said Ken Goldberg, senior director,
market development, BEA Systems. "BEA's alliance with FaceTime
makes it possible to more easily develop and deliver
presence-enabled business applications via a collaborative portal
to enhance customer experience management, workforce productivity
and partner collaboration." FaceTime IM Presence Manager can enable
a user's online identity to be embedded in enterprise workflow
applications such as Web-based portals. It is designed to provide
immediate presence information and availability management for
registered users, presence aggregation for communities of related
users, and presence-based decision making for business process
workflows such as connecting buyers and sellers. By providing
instant access to knowledge workers, a business utilizes the
ability to sense events earlier and respond faster for more
efficient decision making. Speed in communications results in
increased revenues, greater productivity, and competitive
advantage. IM Presence Manager builds on FaceTime IM Director to
provide enterprise-class scalability and reliability. FaceTime's
enterprise IM management suite of solutions can enable IT
organizations to apply standard business use policies to all
diverse methods of real-time communications on any public, private
or enterprise network, including centralized IT management,
control, security, and the ability to extend presence into business
process workflow applications.
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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